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ITE Bishan’s “Vegetable Run”
in Semi-Finals of MediaCorp competition

by Joycelyn Seet

If you think vegetables are only good when eaten, think again.

A team of students from ITE College Central moved one step closer to winning the top prize of $20,000 cash when their enactment of a tale revolving around three vegetable characters – Mushroom, Tomato and Onion – made it to the semi-finals of “It’s Showtime!”, a MediaCorp Channel 8 variety programme. Taking on a competition format, the brand new Chinese variety show sees four to five teams pitting their creative juices against one another each week.

The 16-member ITE team, which went by the moniker, Chuang Yi Feng (Creativity Craze) was made up of students from the newly formed Co-Curricular Activities Club, Mic (Masters in Creativity) Studio. They wowed the judges and viewers with their perfectly executed comedy-drama, “Vegetable Run”, in the second episode. The team garnered sufficiently high scores to progress to the semi-finals.

A Test of Commitment and Passion
Of the experience, second-year Higher Nitec in Business Studies (Administration) student, Khairul Annuar bin Jaffar, who was responsible for executing the backdrop and stage effects, shared: “A major challenge was the construction of props from scratch. It was something the group had little experience in. But that obstacle was overcome eventually.”

He added: “What began as just another project quickly became a test of commitment and passion. Each member of the group quickly found out in their own way that great works of art, however expressed, mandated huge effort and sacrifice. The project was a journey of discovery.”

Overcoming Challenges
Accounting Lecturer, Mr Norman Liew, who was one of the three teacher-advisors to the team, agreed: “The students learned how to express their creativity and work under pressure within tight deadlines. In the process, they developed team spirit, friendship and self-confidence. And because the team comprised students of different races, such as lead actor, Habibullah bin Muhammed Rasheed, who is Indian, they had to put in extra effort to overcome challenges like speaking and cheering in Mandarin. We teachers are very proud of all of them.”

“Looking back, we agreed that not only was the sacrifice worth it, the group had in fact profited - not in monetary terms - but something far more valuable. What we’ve just been through could not be learned from any classroom or textbook in the world,” Khairul summed up. Looks like it was a veggie good learning experience indeed!